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Tables of Contents for A Book of the Book
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editors' Foreword
xii
PRE-FACES
The Poetics & Ethnopoetics of the Book & Writing
7
10
Jerome Rothenberg
``The Book as Machine''
17
8
Steve McCaffery
bpNichol
Notation and the Art of Reading
25
25
Karl Young
``The Poem as Icon---Reflections on Printing as a Fine Art''
50
4
William Everson
The Book as Physical Object
54
17
Keith A. Smith
The Material Page
71
9
Michael Davidson
My Life a Book
80
4
Anne Waldman
Edmond Jabes and the Question of the Book
84
15
Jacques Derrida
Desire for a Beginning Dread of One Single end
99
4
Edmond Jabes
THE OPENING OF THE FIELD
Book
103
1
Gertrude Stein
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
104
3
William Blake
``Introduction'' to the Illuminatied Blake
107
5
David V. Erdman
``So Long''
112
1
Walt Whitman
These Flames and Generosities of the Heart: Emily Dickinson and the Illogic of Sumptuary Values
113
19
Susan Howe
From Mallarme's Le Livre
132
9
Richard Sieburth
The Book to Come
141
19
Maurice Blanchot
The Futurist Moment
160
7
Marjorie Perloff
La Prose Du Transsiberien (facsimile and foldout)
167
11
Blaise Cendrars
Sonia Delaunay
Destruction of Syntax---Imagination Without Strings---Words-in-Freedom 1913
178
8
F.T. Marinetti
``Kruchonykh and the Manuscript Book''
186
15
Gerald Janecek
The One, the Only Book
201
2
Velimir Khlebnikov
The Phenomenon of Adolf Wolfli
203
10
John Maizels
Foreword to the Hundred Headless Woman by Max Ernst
213
4
Andre Breton
The Hundred Headless Woman
217
4
Max Ernst
Boite-en-Valise
221
1
Marcel Duchamp
Spells and Gris-Gris
222
4
Agnes De La Beaumelle
Spell for Leon Fouks
226
2
Antonin Artaud
``Composition as Explanation (Of Modern and Postmodern Poetries)''
228
21
Jerome McGann
THE BOOK IS AS OLD AS FIRE & WATER
The Painted Book
249
2
Nezahualcoyotl
Writing in the Imagination of an Oral Poet
251
6
Henry Munn
Toward a Poetics of Polyphony and Translatability
257
22
Dennis Tedlock
Guruwari Designs
279
7
Nancy Munn
Libro Desierto / Desert Book
286
4
Cecilia Vicuna
The Chinese Art of Writing
290
21
Jean Francois Billeter
The Written Face
311
2
Roland Barthes
Hyakunin Isshu: Between Power and Play, an Anthology in Translation
313
6
Toshi Ishihara
Linda Reinfeld
Novelty Books: Accent of Images and Words
319
15
Martha L. Carothers
Tongues of Men and Angels
334
5
William J. Samarin
Books Within Books: Some Notes on the Kabbalah & the Sefer Yetsirah
339
2
David Meltzer
Sefer Yetsirah
341
4
Anonymous
Celestial Alphabet Event
345
1
Jacques Gaffarel
Conversations With Ogotemmeli
346
1
Marcel Griaule
On the Cult of Books
347
4
Jorge Luis Borges
``Signs and Their Transmission the Question of the Book in the New World''
351
24
Walter D. Mignolo
THE BOOK TO COME
The Heart of a Humument
375
1
Tom Phillips
The Artist's Book as Idea and Form
376
13
Johanna Drucker
Introduction to Books and Graphics
389
6
Dieter Roth
The Books of Di[E]Ter Rot[H]
395
4
Richard Hamilton
On the Book of Bean
399
4
Alison Knowles
O!
403
20
Jess
Notes on a Humument
423
8
Tom Phillips
Writers Forum---Life By 1000 Books
431
9
Lawrence Upton
A Smell of Printing
440
1
Simon Cutts
Souvenir De Voyage
441
4
Ian Tyson
Words: An Environment
445
3
Allan Kaprow
When a Book Is Not a Book
448
19
Thomas A. Vogler
Afterword to Little Sparta
467
3
Alec Finlay
Little Sparta
470
3
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Robin Gillanders
Up to and Including Her Limits
473
3
Carolee Schneemann
Interpreting the ``Kunstkammer''
476
13
Barbara Fahrner
Harriett Watts
``Living History: Faith Ringgold's Rendezvous With the Twentieth Century''
489
5
Dan Cameron
The French Collection, PART I, #3: The Picnic At Giverny
494
3
Faith Ringgold
Writing (Under-)Sky: On Xu Bing's Tianshu
497
7
John Cayley
The Art of Immemorability
504
15
Charles Bernstein
Sources & Acknowledgments
519
4
Index
523